History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem That Made Our World'Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - Literary Review'Passionate' - The Times A spellbinding recreation of Goethe's life and work from one of our greatest biographers. Goethe was the inventor...
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Globalizing Urban Environmental History'Globalizing Urban Environmental History' melds the methodological prescriptions of global urban history, the innovative methods of environmental history, and the interdisciplinary field of urban political ecology to trace the contours of a global urban environmental history. I argue that a global lens fixed on...
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Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing CrewOn December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic without a soul on board. Not a sign of struggle, not a shred of damage, no ransacked cargo--and not a trace of the captain, his wife and daughter, or the...
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General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse"You would be surprised to see what men we have in the ranks," Virginia cavalryman Thomas Rowland informed his mother in May 1861, just after joining the Army of Northern Virginia. His army -- General Robert E. Lee's army -- was a surprise to...
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Gangster Planet: Where Being Connected Means Never Having to Say You're SorryGangster Planet is a wild ride exploring the ever evolving world of drug trafficking, money laundering and stock swindles. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book not only informs but entertains as it delves into the historical progression of criminal activities. As...
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Galapagos Islands SafariWith this title, readers will go on safari in the Galapagos Islands! This book covers how and where safari-goers can encounter several animals of the Galapagos. The title is complete with colorful images, simple text, and a list of exciting safari adventures. Aligned to...
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From Revolution to Reunion: The Reintegration of the South Carolina LoyalistsAn examination of the peaceful reconciliation process that reunited a war-torn state and countryThe American Revolution was a vicious civil war fought between families and neighbors. Nowhere was this truer than in South Carolina. Yet, after the Revolution, South Carolina's victorious Patriots offered vanquished...
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Fremde Flantsungen AF Yidishn Bodn / Fremde Pflanzen Auf Jiddischem Boden / Foreign Plants on Yiddish Soil: Yidishe Makhshoves Vegn Iberzetsn / Jiddis"Die Sprache ist f?r den Dichter mehr als ein Gef? , in das er seinen Zaubertrunk hineingibt; sie ist der Trunk an sich, der Zauber selbst." (Shmuel Niger)Wie wirksam ist der Zauber fremder Poesie, ?bersetzt in eine kleine Sprache? Der vorliegende Band widmet sich...
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Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and PrisonsAlmost 200,000 African Americans fought to save the Union, many believing that military service was the pathway to freedom. Yet, even after enlisting, their journeys for liberation continued amid the bloody civil war. They marched across taxing terrain, performed backbreaking labor, and endured corporeal...
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Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021The long-awaited memoir by one of the most important political leaders of our time For 16 years, Angela Merkel bore the governmental responsibility for Germany, leading the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics and society with her actions and attitude....
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Fighter JetsThis book describes the history, features, and uses of fighter jets. Short paragraphs of easy-to-read text are paired with plenty of colorful photos to make reading engaging and accessible. The book also includes a table of contents, fun facts, sidebars, comprehension questions, a glossary,...
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Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis (1967-1977)این کتاب گزارشی است از آرمان سازمان جشن هنر شیراز از برگزاری یک جشنوارهٔ هنری بین المللی در ایران در فضائی جستجوگر و آزاد، و معرفی مسئولین و مدیران سازمان و برنامه های موسیقی، رقص، نمایش و سینما از آسیا، آفریقا، اروپا و آمریکا...
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Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the UniverseNobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theory What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune...
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Far Out!: The Untold Story of the '60s-Inspired "Back-to-the-Land" Migration that Changed Nova ScotiaThe 1960s was a period of radical social change. Many young people rejected the politics and values of the day and decided to "drop out" and migrate to the country. The desire for an independent rural life on the land took many of them...
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Faith: A Very Short IntroductionVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringWhat is faith? It usually means religious belief, and sometimes diverse religions are grouped together as 'faiths', with reference to 'faith leaders' or 'faith schools'. What we have faith in matters, and that involves our reason, involving claims to...
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Exquisite Slaves: Race, Clothing, and Status in Colonial LimaIn Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and...
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Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One DirectionThe collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes...
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Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One DirectionThe collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes...
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Event-Cities 5: PoeticsAn essential resource on the work of Bernard Tschumi Architects, with a focus on how concept, context, and program intersect with intuition in singular and unexpected ways. Event-Cities 5 is the fifth and final volume in the MIT Press series documenting recent built and...
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Euripides and Quotation CulturePresenting a new approach to Euripides' plays, this book explores the playwright's ancient tragedies in relation to quotation culture.Treating extant works and lost works side-by-side, Matthew Wright presents a selective survey of ways in which Euripidean tragedy was quoted within antiquity, both in social...
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